High Crimes and History
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SubscribersThe clearing of #BLM protesters in D.C. on 06/01 shocked the world. What you may not know is that the Park Police have a long history of disorganization, violence, and a lack of oversight. T...
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The past two months of hiatus has had Trevor and Katie swearing up a storm, so we thought this would be a good time to delve into a more lighthearted episode on the history of swearing, why we swear, ...
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The world has turned upside down in a manner of weeks. As COVID cases rise, the economy falls, and society grinds to a halt, Trevor has a surprisingly optimistic message – the end is NOT nigh. History...
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How do you take 500 ordinary men and train them to kill 83,000 human beings? In 1942 Poland outside the village of Jozefow, the men of the Nazi Reserve Police Battalion 101 found out that all it takes...
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We take some time to delve into a common listener question we get – why is Western history so violent? Trevor dives into the systems of justice, honor, shame, religion, and entertainment that helped f...
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The gunfight of the O.K. Corral didn't end with the Earp brothers and Holliday riding into the sunset. They had been charged with murder. In a preliminary trial, the twists and turns of the prosecutio...
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If history is a narrative, then it stands to reason that where a story starts and ends is just as important as the events itself. The traditional narrative of the famous shootout at the O.K. Corral in...
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How do historians separate fact from fiction? Sometimes it’s almost impossible to do so. Take the case of Pierre Picaud – a Frenchman sentenced in 1807 for crimes he didn’t commit on the hearsay of hi...
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Deep in the jungle in the Vietnam War, an American soldier overdoses on heroin. That overdose can be traced back to the Century of Humiliation that the Chinese faced after the start of the Opium Wars....
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What would it look like if a modern army clashed with a medieval army on the battlefield? The First Opium War answers that question. In order continue their illegal opium trade in China, Britain engag...
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The opioid crisis in the United States has reached historic levels and remains one of the worst drug epidemics in history, but it is far from the first country to be addicted. The Qing dynasty of Chin...
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In our anniversary episode we answer listener questions, including why history is so violent, whether historians can diagnose mental illness, why Trevor can’t pronounce anything right, and whether our...
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What is the worst way to die? Ancient Persia invented many of the methods of execution used throughout history. Some are still used today. Others were so horrific they were never used again. These cru...
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He was a man who clashed with House leadership in a war of words, violated acts of Congress as a show of force after previous investigations on impeachable charges were inconclusive, and was potential...
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In 1491, England was in for a shock. Edward IV’s youngest son, Richard of Shrewsbury, was alive. That was a problem for three reasons. One, if Richard was alive then he was the rightful heir to the En...
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How far would you go to make a comfortable living? Faced with a shortage of bodies for dissection, medical schools in Victorian England turned to resurrectionists. Gangs of men exhumed and stole bodie...
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Corsair slavery in the 16th and 17th centuries does not fit into the modern model of the slave trade. White European Christians were enslaved in the hundreds of thousands by North African Muslim pirat...
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Men have always had a biological need to compete, and that need can turn deadly, but rarely was it socially acceptable. However, at one point in time it was not only commonplace for gentlemen to take ...
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Some legends are larger than life. The question is where to separate fact from fiction. We dive into another famous crime in history - the Ako incident in 1703, in which 47 samurai conspired to take r...
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Werewolves have long been a horror trope in literature, but historically many people have claimed to have committed crimes as lycanthropes. Their journey has been one of tragedy and heroism, of champi...
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The lovable rogue, a trope in pop culture today. Break the law, charm the audience. But most historical rogues were not good, nor were they lovable. John Hawkwood, an English mercenary in the 14th cen...
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How does history help us identify mass shootings and solve the epidemic? On August 14th, 1903 in Winfield, KS, Gilbert Twigg shot nine shots: eight indiscriminately into a concert crowd, and once to t...
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In our very first bonus episode we look back at Gilles de Rais and his trial records to ask an important question: was Gilles de Rais innocent? We examine possible theories of Gilles’ psychopathy, the...
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Victorian London – a grim-dark, pre-noir city of violence and murder. Except it wasn’t. London was safer than most first-world countries today, yet newspapers and broadsides sensationalized every murd...
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To refuse to fight for one's country is often seen as cowardly, treasonous, and un-American. But what happens when a whole religious community practicing nonresistance is forced into the draft? As the...
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Every person's will has a breaking point. But what happens when it's not one man, but a whole army? In 1917 the French army had reached the limit of their morale. Ordered into the trenches, entire uni...
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How well do you think you could recognize a person in a society with only your memory to recall someone’s identity? In sixteenth century France, peasant Martin Guerre returned after almost a decade aw...
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If a crime against humanity today was not a crime back in history, how do we approach those events? Case in point: Thomas Thistlewood, 1700s Jamacian slave owner, engaged in torture, murder, and sexua...
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What if you were born into the profession of executing people? For the Sanson family of Paris, this was their occupation for 200 years. As headsmen they executed some of the most famous people of Fren...
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The Montana Vigilantes have all the evidence they need to convict Henry Plummer and his deputies. But what happens when the vigilantes become the very villains they set out to stop? The result is the ...
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What happens when the law that's supposed to protect you turns criminal? That was the question that the miners of Alder Gulch, Montana faced in the 1860s. When they suspected that the sheriff and his ...
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What if a real-life Sherlock Holmes wrote a how-to book for determining how someone died? A similar situation gave history its first forensics book, written for bookworms thrown into field forensics w...
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Three voices echo within its halls. Three narratives -- a murder, a robbery, and and an escape -- woven together not by time, but by place. For this is the Tower of London, where many have been sent t...
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Welcome to Renaissance Florence, where in order to be anybody citizens had to “dress for success.” Spending on fashion was out of control, teetering on an economic crisis. Fearing financial ruin and r...
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H.H. Holmes: “The Devil in the White City.” “America’s First Serial Killer.” Convicted of nine killings and admitting to twenty-seven, he operated a murder castle at the Chicago World’s Fair and lurin...
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Welcome to the Spanish Inquisition -- the attempt to expel all non-Christians from Spain by force. When a group of Jews is accused of having murdered a Christian boy in a secret blood ritual, it gives...
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How does a billionaire knight turn from Savior of France to serial killer? That is a story that requires walking through the life of the man some historians have dubbed “The Evilest Man in the World:"...
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Most pirates died as they lived. One, however, got away with the largest armed robbery in history. Britain named him Public Enemy Number One. Pirates named him the Pirate King....
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The Affair of the Poisons has reached the King’s court, and chaos ensues. But the hardest part about a conspiracy is figuring out what’s truth and what’s fiction. The best conspiracies – like this one...
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Everyone loves a good conspiracy -- especially when it has a little truth to it. In 1670s Paris a group of career poisoners are discovered to have sold poison to thousands of citizens – including the ...
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At the turn of the century the American frontier considered the woman criminal a double exception in society. Uncommon and uncouth, many were placed in penitentiary systems created by men, controlled ...
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How has mental illness affected history? In the case of the Crown Prince Sado, it's tragic. In 1762, the prince was sealed in a rice chest by his own father for eight days and left to die for his crim...
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Most true crime investigates the past hundred years. We investigate the rest of it. Welcome to High Crimes and History....
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Most true crime covers the past hundred years of recorded history. We cover the rest of it. From murderous knights and pirate kings to ancient Chinese forensic investigators and the Renaissance's literal fashion police, our episodic podcast dives deep into the historical characters and events that make up some of the greatest crimes the world has ever seen — and certainly not found in your textbooks. For more information visit https://www.highcrimesandhistory.com/
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